These five films and their contextualizing publications represent a large part of my scholarly productivity from the period beginning in 2008 to the present. The work spans farther back in time, beginning with 2003 ideation for my first unpublished film, proposition 1984, which I created in radical DIY fashion (with help from the amazing Joshua Ligairi) and screened at various national and regional conferences and symposia (see c.v.).
From within the media ecologies that have afforded me potential to play, compose, and produce films, I also wrote my first book, Cruel Auteurism, a quasi-ethnographic narrative situated on a timeline of the history of my academic field, Rhetoric and Composition. The book highlights an embrace of cinematic rhetorics and explores how we have used film in college writing classes.
To be sure, these films and webtexts show their intense desire to be … something, … something moving, possibly “cinematic.” I admit that aspects of each of these texts represent choices I might have made differently, given more time and more fully operational “studio” conditions. Nevertheless, desire is the thing. Enjoy.
The following links take you to my short films and webtexts in their publication contexts. Or, take a shortcut to the shorts at my vimeo channel.